The RUG (Roots Users Group of Virginia) December 2017 meeting was full of exceptional circumstances. We knew our members and other TMG users wanted to hear about the History Research Environment (HRE) project so our Executive Committee (EC) tried to do everything possible to make the presentation available to a wide audience. RUG member and local" presenter John Lucas traveled from Delaware in advance of the snow forecast and, although RUGs procedure is to cancel a meeting when Fairfax County Public Schools cancels activities, the RUG EC decided the Saturday meeting would proceed despite this policy. After technical difficulties broadcasting the sound on the prerecorded presentation from HRE developers Robin Lamacraft and Don Ferguson in Australia, John Lucas stepped in and delivered the presentation from the slide show reading from the script. During the Q&A session following the program, Robin Lamacraft answered questions from Adelaide, Australia, very early in the morning Australian time, with Don Ferguson available from Melbourne, Australia, as needed. Unfortunately, the RUG EC was unaware that our conferencing app join.me had recently lowered the number of connections for a session to 50 attendees. Our organization was not notified of the change. We apologize for asking people to sign off to try and restart join.me. We realize that some viewers could not sign on again because of the 50-person connection limitation. We will ensure does not recur for larger presentations in the future. Because of our unexpected problems with join.me limitations, the HRE presentation and the Questions and Answers have been uploaded to the Roots User Group website and are available to all without needing a password to sign-in. There are two options to view the programs. Go to the rootsusers.org main page and in the left column, click on the link titled "HRE Update Presentation." A second option is to click the following link: http://www.rootsusers.org/HRE-update.html. The HRE also provided RUG with the pre-recorded presentation and it is available from the same webpage. (Note, it is very large) When reviewing the audio of the Q&A session, we discovered that questions were a little difficult to hear, though the answers from Robin in Australia were quite audible. The HRE folks are developing a Q&A PowerPoint which will available on their website and will be added to our page as well. We wish to thank John Lucas, Robin Lamacraft and Don Ferguson and the entire HRE team for allowing us to hear about the software development. We hope to hear more as it progresses. FYI: The HRE team seeks volunteers with software skills in Java, Eclipse, and HR2. The HRE website has the details.(https://historyresearchenvironment.org/) To paraphrase a famous quote, their motto might well be Make no small plans for only big plans stir men to action. Again, our apologies! Janis Parkison Rodriguez VP Arlington RUG